Sunday Stealing: The Green Meme

It's now Tuesday but better late than never.

1. What is your current obsession? the English countryside!

2. What’s a good coffee place? in front of my pc

3. Who was the last person that you hugged? my son

4. Do you nap a lot? when not sticking my nose on the computer

5. Tonight, what’s for dinner? shrimp balls, fried tuna with kentucky beans and grape juice

6. What was the last thing that you bought? dinner

7. What is your favorite weather? 28 degrees C, clear blue skies

8. Tell us something about one blogger who you think will play this week? she's very busy

9. If you were given a free house that was full furnished, where in the world would you like it to be? definitely in the English countryside!

10. Name three things that you could not live without. my son, internet, my dog

11. What would you like in your hands right now? an assault helicopter

12. What’s one of your guilty pleasures? eating alone at expensive restaurants

13. What would you change or eliminate about yourself? Being not assertive enough sometimes

14. As a child, what type of career did you want? a nun. the habit intrigued me

15. What are you missing right now? the company of cousins my age

16. What are you currently reading? anything on the net

17. What do you fear the most? becoming a bottled pear in Bangkok

18. What’s the best movie that you’ve seen recently? Sense and Sensibility

19. What’s your favorite book from the past year? Harry Potter 7

20. Is there a comfort food from your childhood that you still enjoy? none

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Comments

Improbable Joe said…

Assault helicopter? But where would you park it?

14 April 2009 at 23:03

Hazel said…

in some helipad you are not allowed to know, lol!

15 April 2009 at 09:22

Arlene said…

lingaw zel no?!

nice answers.

15 April 2009 at 16:36

Rumford

The Rumford is a much more efficient way to heat a room than earlier fireplaces....(Wikipedia on Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, designer of tall, shallow fireplaces which are now known as the Rumford, was an Anglo-American physicist known for his investigations of heat)Living in the tropics, I have been in close proximity with only three fireplaces in my life. There was an unused one in the home of my college professor in the Philippines. The other one from which I could feel the heat and see the fire dancing was in a hotel lobby in the Yorkshire Moors. Picture taking was quick. Two old ladies were having tea by it, but that was my first ever real fireplace experience, and I loved it. The latest I have touched is the one in Jane Austen's imaginary Northanger Abbey.
The fireplace, where she had expected the ample width and ponderous carvings of former times, was contracted to a Rumford, with slabs of plain though handsome marbles, and ornament over it of the prettiest English ch…

Q without U

These are words that begin with Q and not followed by U; in random order. Is there anything that's not new to you or have you used some in speech, writing, or word games?

1. qadi - an Islamic judge
2. qat - leaves chewed like tobacco or used to make tea
3. qabala - an esoteric or occult matter
4. qi - circulating life energy in Chinese philosophy
5. qiang - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan
6. qepig - 100 qupig equal 1 manat
7. qabalistic - having a secret or hidden meaning
8. qibla - direction of the Kaaba toward which Muslims turn for daily prayers
9. qatari - a native or inhabitant of Qatar
10. qing - the last imperial dynasty of China
11. qaid- Muslim tribal chief
12. qiviut - musk-ox wool
13. qanat - underground tunnel for irrigation

More here and on crosswordsolver.
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Weekend Snapshot: The AIDS Temple (Lopburi I)

It is sometimes referred to as the AIDS Museum, I tend to call it AIDS Temple. Descriptively it is a buddhist hospice for AIDS patients, the largest one in Thailand. Three of us, a friend, my son and I paid Wat (temple) Phrabat Nampu in Lopburi a visit last weekend. As it is where people with AIDS go to to die, most of what we saw are not exactly the ones I'm in a hurry to show off. But if you are curious, you may want to click on a post I did days ago. Anyway, on with shots that I don't think will give anyone a coronary:

100 steps to the wat
After the climb this is where you arrive at

"View from the top" - those are bare cornfields visitors pass by on their way to the temple

Side view of the Life Museum which ironically displays mummies

A usual sight around Thai temples

Bone sculptures

The temple bell

Life is beautiful. Most of us would prefer that of course. AIDS is also real.

Delineating Des

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